~Kelcey 8:30am

"Wow," Tiffany said when Kelcey finished telling her what happened yesterday. "Is that why you two were acting so weird yesterday?" Kelcey nodded. "So, what are you going to do?"

"About what?" Kelcey asked looking over at the door for the thousandth time hoping Nick would walk in.

"About everything. I mean, can you even imagine how Nick feels?"

"I guess I never really thought about it. I guess I would be pretty shaken up if I watched a wreck happen right in front of me. What should I do?"

"Talk to him, I don't know." Tiffany looked away.

"Do you think he's okay?" Kelcey asked, hoping he was.

"I'm sure he's fine." Tiffany nodded as if she was trying to convince herself.

Kelcey leaned against the wall and hoped that Nick was okay, she was about to say something to Tiffany but saw Nick walk in the band room. She ran over to Nick, not even bothering to tell Tiffany where, or what she was doing.

"Nick!" Kelcey yelled from across the room. Nick looked over at Kelcey and a relived smile seemed to come over his face.

"Hey Kel," he said smiling again. "Are you okay?"

"I could ask you the same thing."

"I fine. I just slept in, that's all." Kelcey nodded and let Nick and Tyler talk. Five minutes later Tyler was telling everyone to get their stuff so they could go outside.

~Nick 8:35am

When Nick saw Kelcey running over to him he realized how worried she must have been, he almost hugged her, but decided that it wouldn't be a good idea, especially with Tyler waiting impatiently for him.

After talking to Kelcey Tyler yelled at him and told him he was setting a bad example. Nick didn't try to apologize, or even explain why he was late. He knew Tyler didn't want excuses. Tyler finally stopped yelling at Nick and started yelling at the band. When they finally got to the practice field Tyler had already forgotten about Nick being late. It seemed like he was too busy finding everyone's faults as they marched.

When the band broke up for sectionals for marching technique Nick wandered over to the snare line and watched Kelcey delegate and direct. For a minute she didn't seem to realize that he was watching her, but when he noticed she seemed to get flustered, Nick slowly walked away smiling to himself. When Nick had walked around to every section he called everyone back so they could march their new sets for the song Nick was conducting. A lot of freshmen gave him confused looks, and some upperclassmen laughed as they got to their spots. Nick watched Kelcey help some of the trumpet players near her find their spots. Nick forgot how hard it was when people had never seen drill charts before.

~Kelcey 11:45am

Before Kelcey even knew it it was time for lunch. As she was walking back to the band room Tiffany caught up with her.

"Hey," Kelcey said. "So, do you want to go somewhere for lunch today?"

"What about Nick?" Tiffany asked. Kelcey looked back and saw that Nick was a few feet behind them.

"Hey Nick," Kelcey yelled over her shoulder. "Wanna go to lunch with us?"

"Sure, sounds good to me." Nick caught up to the two girls and walked between them.

They debated on where to go and finally decided to get some hamburgers. They got their food and ate at the school, by the pond. There wasn't much conversation while they were eating. When Tiffany got done eating she made what seemed to be a lame excuse and left.

"What was that all about?" Nick asked laughing.

Kelcey shrugged. "I told her what happened yesterday," she finally said slowly.

"Why?" Nick asked, but he wasn't mad, Kelcey thought he might be.

"I don't know. When you were late I was worried and I had to tell someone, but I couldn't tell Tyler, he would be mad, so the only logical choice was Tiffany, she's my best friend and I was so worried about you, I had the worst dream-"

"Kel," Nick said interrupting her. "Slow down, you're becoming hysterical."

"Sorry, but I was worried about you." She took a deep breath and realized that she just said everything in one breath.

"Why were you so worried about me?" Nick asked looking at Kelcey.

"I don't know. I just was. After everything that happened, I don't know."

Nick nodded and turned to watch some ducks swimming over to the two of them.

~Nick 12:00pm

"Kel," Nick said tossing some of his uneaten hamburger bun to the ducks. Kelcey turned to look at him. "Don't worry about what happened. I'm okay and you are too."

"I know, but still. What if something had happened to you?"

"It didn't. I'm fine." Nick pulled some gum out of his pocket and offered some to Kelcey.

Kelcey took the gum and looked away from Nick. Nick moved closer to her and his arm brushed hers. She turned again to look at him. Then looked away quickly.

"Kel," Nick said waiting until she turned to look at him. "What's bothering you?"

Kelcey dropped her head and put her hands up to her face. "I don't know," she mumbled under her hands.

"Kel," Nick said gently. "Please tell me."

She dropped her hands and looked up at him. "I was afraid that the reason you were late this morning was because you were in..."

"A wreck." Nick finished the sentence for her after she drifted off. She nodded. "Are you really that worried about me?"

"Yes. Nick I couldn't fall asleep last night. Every time I tried to fall asleep I would see you in that truck." Nick saw Kelcey quickly wiping away tears. He smiled to himself, wondering if Tiffany was right when she told him that Kelcey has had a crush on his since her freshman year. "What are you smiling about?"

Nick laughed and looked into Kelcey eyes. "You." Kelcey quickly turned her head away. Nick put his hand under her chin and gently turned it back. He leaned forward to kiss her but heard someone call his name. He pulled away and dropped his hand. He looked up and saw Tyler walk around the hill.

"Nick!" Tyler yelled. "Come on, lunch was over ten minutes ago." Tyler walke off and Nick looked back to Kelcey. She quickly grabbed her stuff and walked away from Nick. Nick grabbed the bag of garbage and ran to catch up to Kelcey.

"Kel," Nick said. "Sorry. I shouldn't have done that."

"It's okay. Don't worry about it." Kelcey said shrugging her shoulders. They got to the band room with out saying another word to each other.

~Kelcey 1:00pm

"Kelcey?" Kelcey looked up and saw that Jordan was waving his drum sticks in front of her face.

"Sorry. What is it?" Kelcey had been trying to figure out what Nick was doing earlier. It seemed like he wanted to kiss her, but maybe he just felt sorry for her. Kelcey realized that she didn't hear what Jordan asked her again. "Sorry, one more time Jordan. I'm having a bad day right now."

"I just asked you who you wanted to play the duet today."

"Oh, umm. Let's have it the same as last time. I haven't decided who's doing what yet." Jordan nodded and walked off to tell everyone else what was going on.

Kelcey looked up at Nick, but he wasn't looking in her direction. She wanted to know what he was thinking. She hoped that what happened earlier wasn't just him taking pity on her. She hoped he really liked her, just then Nick turned to look at her and she looked away. When she looked back he was talking to a flute player.

Nick got up to conduct his song and Kelcey was glad she didn't have time to memorize all of her music last night, it would give her a reason to stay buried in her music and not have to look up much. Not that she didn't want to look at Nick, she was just confused by everything that was going on.

Music rehearsal seemed to drag on to Kelcey she wanted to talk to Tiffany, she would know what to do, or at least have some good advice. Kelcey looked up and realized that Nick had started the song. She looked back at her music and realized that she had no idea where she should be playing. She looked up at Nick and saw him mouth something to her, she realized it was twenty five. She looked down at her music then back at him. He gave a big down beat and Kelcey started playing. She got to her solo and was glad she at least managed to memorize that. She looked at Nick the whole time she was playing. He had a grin on his face, then she realized that everyone else was watching her too. She finished the solo and everyone clapped. Kelcey blushed and noticed that Nick was laughing. She hoped he wasn't laughing because of her, but figured he was. She smiled slowly and sat down so everyone couldn't keep staring at her.

After Tyler conducted his piece everyone went off to sectionals. Kelcey slowly got up and lead everyone outside. If they had to have sectionals they could at least go where they didn't have to ruin their hearing.

"Have you guys memorized anything yet?" Kelcey asked after they got outside. Everyone but Jordan shook their heads. "What have you memorized Jordan?"

"Just the first song. I'm going to work on the rest tonight."

Kelcey nodded. "Okay, why don't we work on memorizing the last song, since none of us have that one yet."

Everyone looked for music then Kelcey counted them off. They played the song through and she started it again. After an hour they had the first half of the song memorized. Kelcey told them all that they could leave a few minutes early as long as they didn't tell Tyler, or run into him when they went back in the band room.

Kelcey looked at the second piece of music then started playing her solo from memory.

~Nick 2:55pm

Nick watched Kelcey play her solo and slowly walked up behind her. She must have seen him because she stopped playing and spun around.

"Nick!" she yelled. "You scared me half to death."

"I'll try harder next time," Nick said laughing. He wasn't sure what was going on since he tried to kiss her earlier. He sat down on the grass and watched her play her solo again. She finished her solo, put her snare down and sat next to Nick.

"So," Kelcey said slowly. "How did that sound?"

"What?" Nick asked surprised at her question he was afraid she was going to ask about what happened earlier. "Uh, it sounded really good." Kelcey started laughing. "What's so funny?"

"The look on your face. You thought I was going to ask you something about what happened at lunch, didn't you."

"Yeah, I did. But, as long as we're on that subject-"

"We're not," Kelcey said quickly interrupting Nick. "Look, I don't know what almost happened earlier, but let's not worry about it. Sorry, that was rude. Never mind."

"Kelcey, I really care about you. I want to make sure you're okay."

"I am. I promise. It just scared me yesterday. I don't know what I would do if something happened to you."

"Nothing's going to happen. I promise. Now, how about you play that solo again."

A/N: It's a bad ending, sorry. So what do you think? Let me know. I promise that this will turn into a triangle in the next chapter. At least it should. Anyway, please review. Thanks!!